Sustainability indicator programs in developing countries are the poor cousin of ecological indicator research.
Beyond these indicator programs, the CDC's biomonitoring program and "National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals" are enhancing our abilities to measure environmental chemicals in the human body (NCEH 2003).
In many quality indicator programs, (e.g. in the USA: AHRQ, Kaiser Permanente, Veteran Affairs Quality program; Denmark: IKAS; Germany: BQS) the coordinating organizations are responsible for PI data collection and computation, as opposed to programs that rely on self-report of the participating hospitals.
National hospital performance indicator programs commonly use PIs that are selected on basis of expert judgment (e.g. medical doctors, patient organizations) and existing scientific evidence [ 6] about valid relations between health care processes and outcome indicator (e.g. [ 7]).
Chemotherapy was defined as the use of chemotherapeutic agents used by 'quality indicators programs' in Japanese national hospitals.
The survey consisted of a 44-item questionnaire that addressed 6 core programmatic areas: policy, training, medication distribution and logistics, national reporting of key maternal health indicators, programming, and challenges to and opportunities for scale up.
Between January and March 2012, national program teams in 37 countries completed a 44-item survey, consisting mostly of dichotomous yes/no responses and addressing 6 core programmatic areas: policy, training, medication distribution and logistics, national reporting of key indicators, programming, and challenges to and opportunities for scale up.
The ACGME and Anesthesiology Review Committee consider five-year board certification passage rates as an important indicator of program quality when the program is reviewed for accreditation.
Of special note in the survey results, the authors wrote, programs where fewer graduates passed tests from the American Board of Internal Medicine — "one indicator of program quality" — were also more likely to accept the assistance.
Their agreement studied by Cohen's κ coefficient, concordance coefficient correlation (CCC) and Bland Altman plots was used as an indicator of program effectiveness.
Although this is at best a crude indicator of program support for nutrition, the decline took place despite an increase in need as families experienced more food insecurity due to the impacts of the recession.
